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Old May 5th, 2010, 02:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Peter
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Default format capitals in a merge field

I have a merge field drawing on a data source where the data is all in
capitals. I changed it to lower case using the \* Lower switch. But I need
the final result to be in title case, and \* Caps doesn't seem to produce
Title case when the data source is already fully capitalised. Is there
another format switch I could use? or perhaps a way of nesting the field so
it changes to lower case then to title case?

Thanks, Peter.
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Old May 5th, 2010, 09:37 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default format capitals in a merge field

Using the \* Caps switch alone will convert upper case text to Title Case.

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"Peter" wrote in message
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I have a merge field drawing on a data source where the data is all in
capitals. I changed it to lower case using the \* Lower switch. But I
need
the final result to be in title case, and \* Caps doesn't seem to produce
Title case when the data source is already fully capitalised. Is there
another format switch I could use? or perhaps a way of nesting the field
so
it changes to lower case then to title case?

Thanks, Peter.


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Old May 5th, 2010, 08:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
Peter
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Default format capitals in a merge field

Aha...
For reasons that escape me, that option failed yesterday but works today
(which is a better result than the other way round).
Thanks for your help.

Peter.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Using the \* Caps switch alone will convert upper case text to Title Case.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Peter" wrote in message
...
I have a merge field drawing on a data source where the data is all in
capitals. I changed it to lower case using the \* Lower switch. But I
need
the final result to be in title case, and \* Caps doesn't seem to produce
Title case when the data source is already fully capitalised. Is there
another format switch I could use? or perhaps a way of nesting the field
so
it changes to lower case then to title case?

Thanks, Peter.


 




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